Indonesian maid jailed for three years for trying to hurt babies

Singapore - A Singapore court on Thursday sentenced an Indonesian maid who attempted to harm her employer's twin babies by putting detergent in their milk powder to three years in jail, a media report said. Titin Agustiana, 24, had earlier pleaded guilty and testified that she had been unhappy with her employer for scolding her because of poor work performance.

Hoping that her employer would pay more attention to the two-and-a-half-month-old boys and less attention to her work, Titin in August added a pinch of detergent to the babies' milk powder as she wanted to make them sick, the online edition of Straits Times newspaper reported.

However, the twins' mother spotted some blue particles in the milk powder and noticed its fragrant smell.

As she suspected that her helper was responsible, her husband took the woman to the maid agency where she confessed, the report said.

Titin told the judge that she regretted her crime and felt very sorry.

Source: Earth Times.
Link: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/296407,indonesian-maid-jailed-for-three-years-for-trying-to-hurt-babies.html.